August 12, 2023 • 43 mins
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Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO Lanning Garden Show, brought to
you by Cleg's Nursery. If youhave a question about seasonal planting, lanning
garden concerns, all our questions aboutlandscaping, call four nine nine WUGBO.
That's four nine nine ninety five twosix. Good Saturday morning, Betton Rouge.
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This is Zane Mercer joined here withwhat's your name again, Brading?
How's it going, Braden? Goodmorning? Yeah, don't ask me to
pronounce your last name. Yeah,that one's a little tricky. Yeah.
So it's pretty it's pretty nice outsideright now. Yeah, it's it's it's
nice and cool for now. Yeah, probably won't last longer thirty minutes and
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then it's hot again. No,So what's been going on? You normally
work with me occasionally, and theybounced me around. Yeah, you haven't
been at the store very much lately. Yeah, but it's like I've noticed,
we've been doing a lot of cleanup. Yeah, it's just been
a lot of clean up, justtrying to keep weeds under control and keeping
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everything looking good, which is veryhard right now, especially with this heat.
So there's a couple of things Iwanted to talk about today because I've
been getting a lot of calls andconcerns. So we've been having chinch bugs,
all right, And how familiar areyou with chinch bugs and how they
how they spread. I'll remember Butchtalking about this a while back, and
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I want to say that they startfrom the edge of the lawn, right,
yeah, well they work outwards,yeah, all right, So it
looked like a little spot just kindof expands, expands, expands, okay,
all right, And I've been seeinga ton of that lately, especially
in my neighborhood. Pretty much anyany Saint Augustine yard going down my little
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the two streets I usually take toget in and out, it's see it
just kind of slowly creeping. Youcan tell the yards they've been treated,
you know. And a good productto get rid of that. It's going
to be your bug blaster, youknow. There, your towelstar. That's
another excellent product, anything with bipinthrin, all right. That also treats for
side web worms, which have beenseeing that kind of a little bit.
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So when you're when you're using itfor the side web worms, are you
using the liquid or the granulair,the granule in the all the lawn,
all right, but we can theadult web worm likes to hide, and
you like your shrubs and your bushes, all right, and just to stay
out the sun because they'll just cook. It's a moth that are just cooking
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the sun. Okay. But youcan use like a spray like that bug
blaster hose in that we carry.That's probably my favorite of the products.
But just any permethrin, you know, like eight eight works as well,
okay. So and then you know, we just need to kind of stay
on top of that, especially theweb worms because they'll just progressively get worse
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as we start to go into thefall. And the chinch bugs, while
it's hot and dry, they've justbeen active, okay. They've just been
a lot of grass questions left andright at each location, you know,
and and a lot of customers kindof get so a chinch bug infestation kind
of looks like brown patch a littlebit, right, whereas it expands does
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kind of the same thing. Allright. But I mean it's too hot
right now for you to really beseeing that, you know, so,
but I would like to get somephone calls personally. I don't know about
you be nice to hear yea fromsome of the customers. Yeah, So
if you want to reach out tous, if you have any kind of
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lawn and garden question, or ifyou just want to chit chat, the
phone numbers four ninety nine w JBO. That's four nine nine nine five two
six, you know, and ifyou want to listen to this wonderful podcast
that we have going on, that'son the iHeartRadio app. So, but
you know, back to the side, web worms, you chinch bugs,
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those are like your your typical cultureculprits for your lawn problems this time of
year right now in the shrubs andflowers and like all your bedding plants and
stuff. Mealy bugs have been justbeen horrible this year. They have been
just out of control mealy bugs,spider mites, I mean, I mean,
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and then I just I mean Isee lace bug damage everywhere, like
almost every lantana planting, if ithasn't been treated with the systemic insecticide to
prevent it, you can you cantell, you know, it's just I
mean, they get railed and thenyou got to cut them back and fertilize
them and they recover quickly. Butit's like it's time. You know that
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they don't look good. So sinceyou brought up spider mites, because I
I've noticed that a lot lately withmainly like alocacias and and ficus and even
Angel Trumpet's stuff on the lot atwork that we've been having a treat.
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What what do you recommend using thistime of year for spider mites, because
I know you can't just use anykind of insecticidal uh so you could use
like insecticidal soup or you know,there's your any kind of mita side,
like an oil spray. But whenwe go into oils, yeah, it's
it's a hundred degrees right now.So like if we're if we're dead set
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on using oils, which is that'slike a horticulture oil, that's like the
best product to use on it.Uh I just have to be really careful.
It's like we spray at the endof the year or like not at
the end of the year, atthe end of the day when the sun
starts to go down. And thenyou just said a timer. I'm said
a timer for twenty minutes and thenyou go host it after because we're just
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all we're trying to do is suffocatethem, right. We don't need it
need the product to dry or anythinglike that. Okay, So that's a
good question. Spider mites, that'sa one, yeah, because most of
your insecticides actually make them more vigorous. Right, it can speed up their
reproductive sis exactly exactly. So theyou know, go back to the mealie
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bugs. You know, the bestproduct I've been using is that bug blaster.
Again, that bifantherine just doesn't numberon so many insects, and it's
just you know, I mean it'sa great product to use, yeah,
and it's just something good to haveon hand. No, yesterday I had
to spray some stuff at home withbug blaster that had mellie bugs on it,
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and I have to say it wasreally satisfying to watch the millie bugs
just go flying off the plant asyou're spraying, because it really does just
blast them off of there. Ohyeah, So go into you know,
we're getting ready to go into thefall right now. All right, we
started getting some vegetables in all right, So you know we've gotten some peppers.
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Yeah, we've actually gotten some reallynice vegetable plants. Yeah, I
mean we got real nice peppers.Some tomatoes, some squash stuff like that,
just to get for a fall cropof vegetables going. And you know,
I just it's so darn hot.I still ahead and replaced any of
my stuff, like I pulled upeverything. But I mean I hadn't done
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any bed prepper or anything just becauseof how hot it is, you know,
and I just don't like sweating.I got a sweat enough working for
Plax. So but you know,if we if you want to start your
vegetables right now, which it's goodtime to do, I really recommend doing
a transplant, so like essentially justup putting them into a larger container,
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like a one gallon, just sothey can get a good root system,
you know, and then that wouldthey're not as stressed out once we go
into the heat, you know.Right. So that's like the biggest thing
I've it because I've had real toughluck when i'll I'll just go get some
little four packs and go put themout in the sun, you know,
and they'll just kind of wither upand die because it's one hundred degrees outside.
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Yeah, you know, so wekind of got to get them acclimated
for their forever home until it's notyou're saying we should be starting them in
more shade. Yeah, okay,I'm just a little I mean, and
it doesn't have to be a longtime, just like a couple of weeks,
just so that it gets a littlebit bigger and it can withstand the
you know, hellscape that is ourYeah. You want a good root system
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on the plant. Yeah, exactlyso. And the biggest thing is just
consistent watering with all that stuff.And that's the key point with anything right
now, just because it's so hotoutside, staying on top of watering.
Vegetable, any kind of vegetable isa that is a heavy I mean heavy
feeder, heavy drinker, you know. So you want to make sure they're
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happy right now, or at leastas happy as can be, right,
you know. But like I said, we've got a ton of different vegetables
that we started pulling in. Imean, I've got We've got ocra squash.
I think I might have all cucumbers. Could be wrong, though,
So what kind of tomato are yourecommending people plant right now? The celebrity
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is great, you know, we'vegot some other varieties. Uh, that's
a it's a weird tomato. Butthe chocolate sprinkles for some reason. I
like that one, you know,and you're like, oh, it's like
this brownish purple color. They domake a strange color. Yeah, and
it's like that is not a ripetomato though, so but no, that
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probably the celebrity celebrity. Yeah,Unfortunately, my household doesn't like tomatoes except
ketchup. I can't lie. Idon't eat them raw. You can't cook
it any kind of way, andI'll eat it raw, thank you.
But no, there was I mean, celebrity has just been an excellent performer.
Yeah, that's a big seller atthe store. Ye. So but
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now that and then I mean,just just make sure we're fertilizing and keeping
stuff watered. That's like the biggestthing with any of those vegetables. Okay,
all right, so moving up,you know, we talked about watering,
you know, and then I thinkwe all have to take a break
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coming up. But what we'll dois we'll touch up on watering a little
bit and just a little bit.But I wanted to go back just for
a second to talk about the tryingwhen we're talking about the vegetables, all
right, the if you wanted tostart seeds all right, I want to
do that you want to do there'sinside until they sprout. I had a
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few people come in. They wantedto just direct sew, and once you
get the hang of direct sewing,it's pretty smooth. But if you're a
fresher gardener, typically recommend starting themin actual cell packs, just like what
we do with the nursery. Sowhen you're starting them at home, should
you have them like up on awindow sill closer to sunlight? Yeah?
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Okay, So like my folks havea big old fancy grow table thing,
you don't have to have that.You just put them up by the window
sill and just kind of rotate therotate the flat. And how should you
be watering that while you have itinside? With a mister a mister attle.
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I'll just have a little spray bottle. We don't really want to soak
the ground, but you want tokeep it moist. Okay. So my
name is Zayeth Mercer, joined herewith Braden Bonna Donna. Again, thank
you for pronouncing your last night butcheredevery time. So you know, we
had to take a little break.But I want to talk about watering plants,
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you know, not that we don'ttalk about that enough. Yeah,
right, but you know we've gotyou've got your potted plants, and you've
got your stuff in the landscape,all right. Not all plants get the
same amount of water, all right, But right now it is so dry
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and hot. If it is nota cactus, it needs water. Yeah,
it needs water like almost every day, you know. I mean I'm
running I'm running my soaker hoses forlike seventy minutes on several zones because they're
long. But it's just I mean, it's crazy. And then when we
went on vacation, just to playit safe, I was running it for
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ninety because I didn't want to trust. I mean, everything's fine, I
know, it's just like the biggestthing is I was just trying to keep
the beds hydrated. Yeah, youknow, I didn't want I didn't want
my flower beds to go hydrophobic becausethen all of a sudden they don't absorb
the water that we're putting on it, right, you know. And that's
like the biggest thing I've tried toget across to any customer that comes in
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with the water in question, youknow, may have been seen so much.
I mean yesterday I've got an extremelywell versed contractor just I mean showing
me picture after picture of leaf scorch, you know, and it's just like
water water, water, that's allit is. It's water. So but
it looks like we've got a phonecaller out from Lafayette. Okay, how's
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it going today out? Fine?It just hot, very hot. Yeah,
this is my favorite in law Bradenby the way. Oh okay,
I have a question about web rooms. You know, it didn't kill the
tree, and it looks bad,but is it necessary even to treat them?
You're talking about like the tent caterpillarsup in the Yeah, contre.
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I mean usually the infestation isn't sobad that it affects the tree. Now,
that's it. I mean I've seenit where it looks like it looks
like a tents over the entire pecantree, and the pecan tree is like
sixty feet tall, you know.So I mean it's really it's up to
you. I mean it it butused to bug me driving a mow in
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the grass underneath it, underneath thepecan trees and then getting covered in them
because I would hit a limb likea brush brush a limb. Yeah,
but the best way to get ridof them is you you poke a hole
with a stick and you spray permethronin the in each tent. So you
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have to actually get it inside thewebbing yea, which is next to impossible
once it gets real tall. Yeah, and it's not really feasible to like
treat it with a systemic insect aside, you know. So yeah, I'm
gonna say I'm gonna go with Okay, it's up to your discretion if if
it's bad, if it's super severe, I would say treated. Otherwise I'd
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usually just let it go. Yea. Okay, Well, thanks a loud.
I appreciate it. You're welcome.Take care. Hopefully I get to
see her soon. I know exactlywhat tree she's talking about. Well,
maybe we get to see it soon, yep. So but no, uh,
that's a good question. Yeah,yeah, Now those are some tough
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buggers to kill. Yeah, becausethey always see that acts like a wall.
All right, So like we'll carrythe eight. The eight has a
jet nozzle on the house end.That is the only one that will penetrate.
Okay, otherwise you have to makethat hole you get the exactly yeah,
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because it just doesn't have the waterpressure to push through. Okay,
you know, but that's a yeah. They just like to make houses everywhere,
you know. So and then there'sa couple of other insects that do
the same thing, you know.And it's like there's a scale m that'll
do something similar. Really it wrapsthe whole tree. I did not know
that. I know spider mites cando something kind of like that, exactly.
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All right, So we're talking aboutwatering, and you know, we
just talked about water, water,water, and so I know, especially
with my plants because I have alot of pot at things, it's almost
twice a day at this point.We water when we leave for work,
and then we water when we gethauled from work after watering plants all day
at work exactly. Now, thereal saving grace I found, So I
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have I have some pots in myfront of my front of my patio,
and the saving grace I found isI put that soil, my moist product
that we sell in the each pot. Okay, yeah, And what that
is is that's just a polymer.It's real similar to the stuff in diapers.
So it's just an absorbent, soit expands when water is added.
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To it and then it slowly leaksthat water out right, So it helps
reduce watering. And so that's setof I'm seeing people over water with that
in there, you know. Butit just helps that neglectful period where it's
like, hey, I still gotthrough more hours at work and I know
those plants are drooping. Yeah,you know, So it just helps get
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it to that point where I canwater it again. Okay, Yeah,
Now that's just that product's been asaving grace for me a bunch of times
over the years. Another thing Iwanted to kind of talk about, as
far as Pottit Plants goes, isfertilizing. What fertilizer do you recommend or
pott So I really like that premiumbedding plant food that we carry. Now,
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the amount I will put down perplant varies, like as it gets
hotter. As it gets hotter,I cut whatever I'd put down in half.
And are we having to fertilize moreoften with Pottit plants because water is
like washing it out when you're watering. Yes, So like this stuff,
I like all my flower bed stuff. I'm not gonna I'll put fertilizer in
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the spring a little after I've plantedit maybe two weeks after and then I'll
put some down again, you know, somewhere around junish May, all right,
and then I just kind of letit go. I mean, I
can put some more down in anothermonth and a half, but I usually
forget about that time. Yeah.But now that said, this whole the
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whole period, I'm also amending itwith fish emulsion fertilizer, just like you
know, I'll do a one weekall right, We're gonna fertilize with this.
So I'll hit everything with fish emulsion, you know, just to give
stuff a little extra boost, right, all right, Because I'm doing a
slow release fertilizer and that's my granule, and then I'm using a fast release
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periodically. And when you're spraying fishand washing, can you spray that like
on the plane itself? Are youtrying to get mostly the soil? You
can spray it on the planet itself, all right, but it does absorb
mostly through the soil. Okay,all right, So I'm gonna I want
to soak each plant. And whatabout like if you're using a water soluble
fertilizer or like a miracle growth products, are you using that more often?
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If you're that's that's kind of thesame. The miracle grow is more of
the same thing as my fish emulsion, right, Okay, that's just my
amendment, all right. It's likeI got some liquid feeds. I'm going
to use those kind of periodically tojust give stuff a little boost, okay,
And I found it worked. Imean anything that's fast and like as
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just fast growth, like your petunias, all right, they just respond really
well to the fish emulsion. SoI kind of favor that over miracle grow.
That fish emulsion really does do somegood stuff or plants stint, but
oh yeah, you know it stinks. But it's like that you're collediums.
Yeah, things like that. Theyseem to respond, like you know,
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use a slow release nitrogen and thenyou hit it with a fast release.
It seems to kind of respond realquickly. So I've been real happy with
that. The you know, andyour annual fertilizers in the landscape, I'm
gonna put more obviously than I wouldin a pot, right, you know,
because I don't want to burn anyof my plants. Right. So,
and that's another thing I think it'sworth mentioning, is when you're fertilizing
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pot it plants it. You reallydon't want to go too close to the
base of that plant. You wantto go kind of around that, kind
of around the edge of the pot, so you're not burning any of the
roots. Yeah, we want it. We want the fertilizer in the root
zone, but at the edge ofthe root zone, because you want your
fertile you want your roots to expandoutwards, right, all right? And
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you know, and I found itit kind of helps if you put your
fertilizer on that outside edge. Ithelps your roots kind of especially a newly
planted plant, They're gonna seek outthat nutritional content, so they're gonna expand
outwards and they're like, oh,I've got all this food out here,
so it's gonna start pushing roots outfurther exactly to the pot. So and
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I've just had really good look withthat. All right, Let's see,
we got another phone caller. That'sexciting. Tim. How are you doing
today? Great? Great? Myquestion is I have some African daisies in
my flower bed. Been doing greatall spring up until the last maybe two
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weeks. I'm starting to get alot of browning the upper upper leaves and
I've been watering the heck out ofit, and it's kind of stopped blooming,
and uh, it looks like they'restarting to die out. Do those
die out in the in the summer? Not typically unless they are when you're
when you're watering. How how manyhow often are we watering them every day?
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Just about now? Yeah, Imight might cut it back a little
bit. Train are they in pots? Are in the ground? They're in
the ground, They're in the flowerbed. I have a hibiscus and some
allocacia giant allocacia that's in the sameflower bed, and the allocacia are not
growing as a vigorously as they were, so I was thinking they needed a
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little bit more water to them.But my African daisies are about you know,
two foot tall maybe and about threefoot wide. They really grown.
But now I'm starting to see somebrowning at the top. Usually you'll get
a little at the bottom. Yeah, yeah, we always see a little
on the bottom, right, Butnow I'm starting to get it up top.
And have you just inspect the stemsand everything in the leaves for any
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kind of insects, especially like mealybugs. They like them. They like
to get in like tiny crevices something, so you won't necessarily see them,
but they're they're doing damage. Okay, Yes, biscus is doing great.
I mean it is blooming. It'sactually one of the bigger ones I have
because I guess it does get morewater than some of the ones I have
in pots. Yeah, oh yeah, and the high biscus will love the
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water. Yeah right. The onesin the pots are just small blooms,
and I guess that's from the heat. Yep, yeah, it's the just
the heat. Occasionally they'll get alittle thrip on them, like a little
insect, but it's probably just theheat. It's kind of it makes the
flower smaller, kind of dwarfs it. It's just also, should I be
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watering with a liquid fertilizer just enoughto get them fertilized because I use granules,
but water in it every day.I'm sure the granules don't last as
long as they normally do. AndI water every third day. Yeah you
know, Oh yeah, no,I know. Yeah, you could go
ahead and just hit them with someliquid feed as well, right, do
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youither like once a week or onceevery two weeks. I remember Butch telling
me one time that using a liquidfertilizer is like an energy drink or an
energy shot for a plant. Well, it's like a fast acting. Yeah,
you don't water it as much.You water enough just so they can
get a good drink. Yep.Then the next day come back and give
them a good drink of water.Exactly. Yeah, the question I have,
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I'm sorry, No, you couldgo ahead as my set zoomas.
I got a plant it's probably fiveyears old, and I've usually had a
good crop us at zoomas off ofit, and I noticed I went out
yesterday and I've been watering it,but I've gotten several now that have just
split, like they've gotten too muchwater. Okay, So it could be
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it could be the like I mean, how much when you say you've been
watering in a good bit, Well, you let the sprinkler or the like
a soaker hose run for like well, actually, I just lately I've been
just running the hose for about fiveminutes full at the outer edges of the
drip line, okay, and justsoaking the ground real well about every three
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to four days. Okay, becauseit is in the ground and it is
a good stable tree. You know, it's been there a while yeah,
you said for five minutes. Yeah, yeah, I might. I might
put a little bit more water,but I wouldn't think the the water is
not going to be shouldn't be splittingyour satsumas though, because it's not that's
not a lot of water. Okay, there's the lower ones that are on
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there that are doing it, butit's like the other ones are getting a
little yellow tip at the end wherethey're starting to ripen a little bit.
But I noticed seas were more yellow, and it was like they filled up
full of water and just split therhine open. Yeah, and that usually
see that when we get like aninflux of water. So like at my
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house, my satsuma did it lastyear at one point because all of a
sudden we got rainfall. I swearfor like two weeks straight, right yeah,
and then like a month later theystarted splitting, you know. So
I mean, if you wouldn't mindif you out and about if you just
bring a sample in, I'd loveto take a look at it. Okay,
yeah, we'll do it all right. Well, I appreciate your appreciate
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it. My name is Say Mercer, still joined here with Braydon. Good
morning, Yeah, good morning,right, Why don't we tell every thought
of the phone number they can call. Oh yeah, because my wife keeps
texting me to remind me it's gonnabe four nine nine w JPO. That's
four nine nine nine five two six. If you have a call question or
concern, you can call now.You know, we were talking about watering
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like our betting plants or shrubs,all that stuff, just keeping it consistent,
you know. And I mentioned itfor a second about the I'm trying
to keep my flower beds hydrated,right, you know, not soggy,
but not powdery and compacted right,all right, because that I mean,
water doesn't permeate through that as wellas you know, all right, you
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know, well at the nursery youcan always tell when a betting plant has
gone a little too long, alittle too long, you know, So
it just it gets that compaction right, just separating, starts separating all of
a sudden, water doesn't permeate throughit. Well. But that also so
kind of ties up nutrient content inthe soil when we repeatedly go to wet
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to dry, wet to dry,so like with your tomatoes and your peppers,
calcium will get locked up in thesoil, all right. But I
found with like betting plants and shrubsand stuff, it's it's the same deal,
you know. They just don't takeup nutritional content as well, which
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opens the door to them to bestressed out, all right, which opens
the door for insects and pests tocome in, right, you know,
because you never really find a realgood insect infestation on a healthy plant.
It's always there's something already wrong withit, you know, like with mealy
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bugs. Oh there was a gashon this plant, so mama laid her
eggs in the ash, all right, And it's because it's like got this
safe, protected spot. You know. It's the same with like you'll find
wasp nests and like hollies and stuff. Whenever there's like a little section,
I die back because it's like,oh, all of a sudden, this
is a really good umbrella, right, you know. It so the same
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kind of deal, you know,But we're uh. I wanted to just
kind of mention about, you know, the betting plants and stuff that we
have in the nursery still, yeah, because and I know it's really hot
right now, but is there anythingthat we can be playing thing as long
as we're watering enough. Oh youcan. As long as you're water enough,
you can you can plant all year, you know. But we just
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have to water enough, that's thething. So I mean, I've got
I've got some pockets at my housethat I got to pull up like I'd
pulled up my angelonia because uh,let's just say, somebody helped water and
uh they snapped, you know,they got damaged, and I I just
rather pull them up and I'll justreplace them with something else, you know.
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But we've got gorgeous cuban gold doriantaright now. Yeah, you know,
we've got not add such a goodcontrast color. So anyone that's not
familiar with that, that's a likea shart true screen to yellow bedding plant
kind of perennial like he typically comesback each year. I usually just rip
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it up because that's square footage toput other stuff. But you know,
we've got that in stocked. We'vegot still a good selection of Salbia.
You know. I've got plenty oflantanna, really neat varieties where it's like
a I mean there's a there's onered I think it's called a citrus blend
all right, where it's like redto orange is really congent red. Yeah,
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you know, it's just like justverry stands out, you know.
And so we've got, i meanplenty of things to choose from, pent
some really nice native milkweed right nowtoo. Now the milkweed selection has been
there was like that one little briefperiod in between the spring going into the
summer, it was like two orthree weeks where we didn't have too much.
But I mean with the gallons ofthe native there's just fat, pulous
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and that's a pretty orange. Soit's still a very pretty bedding plant.
And it stands out, that's forsure. And it seems to grow fast
enough to compete with the caterpillars.That's the one. The one issue I
have with milkweed is some of themdon't grow quite as fast fast enough,
so when you have a good cropof caterpillars, they'll just wipe out the
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wipe out your milkweed and then moveon. Do you ever find that a
fits go after one milkweed other anotherone, or do they just really just
go out? I think they justreally really like milkweed, you know,
I mean it just overall, Imean, it's just every single one except
maybe the giant. The giant.Yeah, that's true. I haven't spider
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mites like the giant, so theygot that cut. You know which,
by the way, if you're notfamiliar with giant milkweed, that is another
really neat. I mean it looksalmost alien, it really does. It
makes a strange but really cool lookinglittle flour It's like a little lavender pink
flower. But it's almost like glossy. Yeah. And then really it's shape
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dot Yeah, that's another thing.It's like it's more shaped like a almost
like a cube right now. ButI don't mean interrupt, guys, but
I just had a caller off airwanted to pass along a question to see
if you guys can answer and aids, which is conveniently enough, something that's
not a problem that he said withthis. This is from Daryl and Denham
Springs. He's got a problem withants on his Okra, but he doesn't
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have any aphids on his okra,so he's wondering what might be causing that,
well, what he might be ableto do to you know, get
I mean, okra's tasty at all. But yeah, I'm curious what they're
farming on that because it's not usuallywhen you see ants it's because they're getting
what is it the honeydew or doyeah, they what's that ants movie?
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I think they talked about it andthen no, but it's a they go
and they they're essentially they're farming theaphids, right, and which is kind
of neat when you think about it. But it's a pest for us,
you know. So there's some antcontrol we can be putting out right now
to kind of clear that up,all right, but I'd be hard pressed.
I want to try to find theactual pest. That's the answers the
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ants are going after. They're goingafter something, you know. Now that
said, if it could be afire ant nest just in the bed,
so that would be a different thing. But yeah, I would use the
if it's fire ants, I woulduse that, come and get it.
Because it's just spanosaid, which isinert bacteria. You can use that around
a vegetable plant, yep, okay, so we can use that in that
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area. And then there's also anotherproduct it's tomato and vegetable control which that
kills ants as well. We canuse that in the bed, all right,
So I hope that helped you out, Daryl. You know, so
a fits though pain in the butt, they really are. Yeah, I'd
still rather have to deal with afits over milliebugs or spider mites, so
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exactly. You know what, Idon't want to deal with mosquitoes, which
they're gonna come once. Once westart getting rainfall. The conditions are almost
perfect. All we're missing is therain. Well, you can say we
need the rainfall. But at myhouse we've still had mosquitoes. They they
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light you up at night. It'sjust I mean, that's the word most
annoying thing. And it doesn't botherme, but it tears up my kids.
And then it doesn't bother them.But then they have all these whelps,
right you know, and it lookslike, you know, I just
stuck them in a mosquito pit.Right. So, but now there's a
great product that we carry over atClegs called ion or aon I never know
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how to pronounce, but it's themosquito barrier that we used to carry.
It's it's the same stuff, allright, and it lasts about about ninety
days supposedly, right you know.Now that's said, I don't I don't
actually measure when I bought. Idon't match receipts. And it's really easy
to set that up because really allyou have to do is that water to
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it. Just just lukewarm water,like warm water, all right, and
shake it a little bit and hangit in a tree, and just make
sure that trees away from you.I do, yeah, I do remember
seeing that on the label. Sayso it has so it's a bait that's
in there so that it tracks themosquito over to it and kills it and
just it essentially disrupts the life cycle. So it's a great product because of
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that, because you're not I mean, I used to use the mosquito bits,
right, which do essentially the samething. They wipe up the jack
up the life cycle of the mosquitoes. But you have to throw that I
kind of threw it as chicken spreaddown the yard, right all right,
we have to throw that in yourdamp areas, okay, all right,
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which I mean and I do thatlike every few weeks kind of deal.
That's what it seemed like you whereasthis this product, I mean, you
pretty much hang it up and youforget about it, right until you realize,
oh, I got to hang upanother one, yeah, when the
mosquito start coming back. So it'sjust been overall, it's just been very
impressed, especially on the price point. I think it's twenty four ninety nine
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maybe, and it's just i mean, pretty affordable for I mean, you
get two containers in it which coverI think a quarter to a half acre
or something like that, all right, and then you just hang them up
and get to hang outside, youknow. And it's better than me having
a call three one one all thetime, right you know. So you
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know, we talked about insects,We've talked like we just talked about general
pests that we've got going on rightnow, all right, but I'd like
to talk about some more exciting thingsgoing on. All right, what you
got, Like I'm hoping we're gettingcitrus you know in the next you know,
should be coming up soon next monthmonth is we'll be getting a new
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ship shipment a citrus, which werealready we had, you know a lot
of the heavy hitters like we hadyour your hamling, you had your lemons,
we had all that stuff. Buthopefully we should get some sat zooms
coming up, which that'll be exciting, but you know, I won't I'll
cross my fingers until they show up. Yeah, we'll see what they get
there. You know, I've justbeen I've just been wanting to play another
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sat zoom at my house. Honestly, what kind do you like to play?
So, you know, we typicallycarry there's a worry the Brown Select,
the mehou. There's that new varietywe started pulling in called the Arctic
Frost, which I'm doing a gotmy dad one of those for Christmas,
I think, And so the thingsit seems to be doing really well,
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you know, but I just probablymy favorites, the Brown Select, the
Brown seleg But you're hard pressed toreally tell them apart. It's really it's
it's generally difficult to tell them apart. The biggest thing is their actual fruiting
time. They're a up weeks apart. It's kind of like blueberries, where
it's like one week this variety isblue one, or fruiting I've alway been
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there next week. I've always beencurious about the Arctic frosts because I know
that one sends to be a littlemore hardy. Yeah, what is as
far as the fruit, what isthe actual fruit? Like, I'm waiting
to find out you never had oneone yet. The one I have at
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my dad's house is setting fruit rightnow. I didn't pick off all of
it, and they take good throughthe winter last year completely fine, gets
the little bronzing like citrus typically I'llget in the winter, just like Guardinia's.
They just get kind of off offgreen. Yeah, you know so.
But oh, it looks like we'vegot another phone caller. All right,
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let's see Eve. How are youdoing today? Hey? Hot,
like everybody else, right, butout early as I can and doing what
I can. I had two questions. One is can you guys spell You
said you couldn't pronounce it, butyou didn't spell the name of thesquito.
Yeah, of course. Then youadd the water too, So I'm going
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to write that down. And thenI had a citrus okay you're ready,
uh huh, all right, Soit's Ion. It's a I O m
uh huh mosquito barrier and b whoSo that's the brand name is Ion?
Is Ion? Okay? Got it? Okay, that's great. And then
oh and I should ask this,you know I have and I used regularly
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for the mosquito. The the stuffthat you put in any water that prevents
them from reproducing. Yep, yeah, you know the I forget the name
of it. Yeah, Mosquito Dunk. Yeah, it's the same brand I
use, the Mosquito bits, samestuff. Okay, So is the ion
kills them as opposed to Mosquito Dunk, which just keeps them from breeding?
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Yeah, more or less. Theway the ion works is it kills the
female. I want to say,huh, is the female or the male
mosquito? It kills one of them, which essentially wipes out the That's what
you meant when you said it breaksup the breeding cycles. Okay, well
on most citrus, excuse me.I've got a lemon, and I have
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a ruby red grapefruit, and lastyear I got like a hundred grapefruits from
that from the ruby red. Wow. And then and then I have oh
and they taste so good. Andthen I have a fig, I've got
orange, and I have a limethat had gone to the original. I
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have to start grafting that one toget anything back, because when we had
the snow, the line came backwith rootstocks. So you know, unless
it gets cross pollinated from the oneof the other trees, you can't eat
the fruit. No, there's much. Yeah, and you don't want that
for anyway? Well, it waspretty good. Actually I tried it,
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the one that crossed Ball made.But here's my question. So we've got
all of this heat, and myson is helping me because I'm an old
lady, you know, so hewants to water, Like what is the
amount of time I heard you sayseventy minutes around the root line for a
soaker host? What do you recommendfor the citrus trees? And what should
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we expect fruit wise because of thissun? So you said the citrus are
like how old? How old?About a couple years? Say about oh,
ten years? Okay? All right, yeah, I mean I might
once a week, all right,especially if they're that old. And that's
only only because they're that old.You know, I would just put the
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hose out if you can get thehose to it, and just put it
on a trickle. But for butfor how long? Would you say?
If if I'm doing a hose tothe trickle out on each one, I'm
gonna run that for like an hour? You know? Okay, I just
wanted the same. Yeah, wewant to deeply soak, all right,
especially when we're not ginny rainfall right, just because not fertilizing either, because
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I've been told and I've always believedit might be wrong that you don't fertilize
when you have this kind of heat. Is that ac or not? Not?
Typically? Yeah, the only one, the only reason if I put
any fertilizer on something, I'm gonnago, I'm gonna go half strength,
okay, all right, and usethe liquid fertilizer. Yeah, yeah,
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you could use liquid. And thenwhat do you what should we expect fruit
wise or how should our fruit production? Uh? And the flowering and everything
that cycle the affected by this heat? Like what would be something that we
shouldn't freak out over because it's Iwould expect a less less of a crop
if we just continually going go intothe drought. That was a good That
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was a good question from Eve.You know, real good question this citrus.
It's just kind of you know,you want to help them out.
Sometimes less care is more, youknow. Now that said, I mean
strictly you always fertilize all year.So and you were telling miss Eve that
with an older tree you wouldn't needto water as often. Is that because
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the roots are like further down intothe soil, they can reach more moisture.
They can reach more moisture. Imean, you think about it.
A plant with it is in athree gallon container that's like the root zones
ten inches wide, you know,and they can only absorb that much water
from that area, all right.But a ten year old satsuma that's fifteen
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foot wide, all right, that'sgonna be able to reach. That's a
huge surface area, right, youknow, so they can just pull more
water than you know, the littleplant can. All right. So but
now it's good questions, good questionsall day. I wish we had got
more phone calls, but hey,I like talking to you, Braden,
So I worked out, you know. So anyway, yes, so we're
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just wrapping everything up. But ifyou wanted to come down to the nursery,
have any calls or questions, I'llbe here there today, probably tomorrow
rather the next day. I won'tbe there tomorrow, but i'll be there
today. Yeah, but we'll beover at the nursery over at Seagan Lane.
If you have any calls or questions, don't hesitate to come see us.
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We'll even get out the heat andstay inside. Would be more than
happy to act exactly exactly so well, it was a pleasure doing the radio
show with you today, Break andI guess we'll see you next time.
We'll see you next time, yeah,
Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO Lanning Garden Show, brought to
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That's four nine nine ninety five twosix. Good Saturday morning, Betton Rouge.
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This is Zane Mercer joined here withwhat's your name again, Brading?
How's it going, Braden? Goodmorning? Yeah, don't ask me to
pronounce your last name. Yeah,that one's a little tricky. Yeah.
So it's pretty it's pretty nice outsideright now. Yeah, it's it's it's
nice and cool for now. Yeah, probably won't last longer thirty minutes and
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then it's hot again. No,So what's been going on? You normally
work with me occasionally, and theybounced me around. Yeah, you haven't
been at the store very much lately. Yeah, but it's like I've noticed,
we've been doing a lot of cleanup. Yeah, it's just been
a lot of clean up, justtrying to keep weeds under control and keeping
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everything looking good, which is veryhard right now, especially with this heat.
So there's a couple of things Iwanted to talk about today because I've
been getting a lot of calls andconcerns. So we've been having chinch bugs,
all right, And how familiar areyou with chinch bugs and how they
how they spread. I'll remember Butchtalking about this a while back, and
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I want to say that they startfrom the edge of the lawn, right,
yeah, well they work outwards,yeah, all right, So it
looked like a little spot just kindof expands, expands, expands, okay,
all right, And I've been seeinga ton of that lately, especially
in my neighborhood. Pretty much anyany Saint Augustine yard going down my little
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the two streets I usually take toget in and out, it's see it
just kind of slowly creeping. Youcan tell the yards they've been treated,
you know. And a good productto get rid of that. It's going
to be your bug blaster, youknow. There, your towelstar. That's
another excellent product, anything with bipinthrin, all right. That also treats for
side web worms, which have beenseeing that kind of a little bit.
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So when you're when you're using itfor the side web worms, are you
using the liquid or the granulair,the granule in the all the lawn,
all right, but we can theadult web worm likes to hide, and
you like your shrubs and your bushes, all right, and just to stay
out the sun because they'll just cook. It's a moth that are just cooking
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the sun. Okay. But youcan use like a spray like that bug
blaster hose in that we carry.That's probably my favorite of the products.
But just any permethrin, you know, like eight eight works as well,
okay. So and then you know, we just need to kind of stay
on top of that, especially theweb worms because they'll just progressively get worse
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as we start to go into thefall. And the chinch bugs, while
it's hot and dry, they've justbeen active, okay. They've just been
a lot of grass questions left andright at each location, you know,
and and a lot of customers kindof get so a chinch bug infestation kind
of looks like brown patch a littlebit, right, whereas it expands does
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kind of the same thing. Allright. But I mean it's too hot
right now for you to really beseeing that, you know, so,
but I would like to get somephone calls personally. I don't know about
you be nice to hear yea fromsome of the customers. Yeah, So
if you want to reach out tous, if you have any kind of
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lawn and garden question, or ifyou just want to chit chat, the
phone numbers four ninety nine w JBO. That's four nine nine nine five two
six, you know, and ifyou want to listen to this wonderful podcast
that we have going on, that'son the iHeartRadio app. So, but
you know, back to the side, web worms, you chinch bugs,
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those are like your your typical cultureculprits for your lawn problems this time of
year right now in the shrubs andflowers and like all your bedding plants and
stuff. Mealy bugs have been justbeen horrible this year. They have been
just out of control mealy bugs,spider mites, I mean, I mean,
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and then I just I mean Isee lace bug damage everywhere, like
almost every lantana planting, if ithasn't been treated with the systemic insecticide to
prevent it, you can you cantell, you know, it's just I
mean, they get railed and thenyou got to cut them back and fertilize
them and they recover quickly. Butit's like it's time. You know that
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they don't look good. So sinceyou brought up spider mites, because I
I've noticed that a lot lately withmainly like alocacias and and ficus and even
Angel Trumpet's stuff on the lot atwork that we've been having a treat.
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What what do you recommend using thistime of year for spider mites, because
I know you can't just use anykind of insecticidal uh so you could use
like insecticidal soup or you know,there's your any kind of mita side,
like an oil spray. But whenwe go into oils, yeah, it's
it's a hundred degrees right now.So like if we're if we're dead set
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on using oils, which is that'slike a horticulture oil, that's like the
best product to use on it.Uh I just have to be really careful.
It's like we spray at the endof the year or like not at
the end of the year, atthe end of the day when the sun
starts to go down. And thenyou just said a timer. I'm said
a timer for twenty minutes and thenyou go host it after because we're just
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all we're trying to do is suffocatethem, right. We don't need it
need the product to dry or anythinglike that. Okay, So that's a
good question. Spider mites, that'sa one, yeah, because most of
your insecticides actually make them more vigorous. Right, it can speed up their
reproductive sis exactly exactly. So theyou know, go back to the mealie
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bugs. You know, the bestproduct I've been using is that bug blaster.
Again, that bifantherine just doesn't numberon so many insects, and it's
just you know, I mean it'sa great product to use, yeah,
and it's just something good to haveon hand. No, yesterday I had
to spray some stuff at home withbug blaster that had mellie bugs on it,
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and I have to say it wasreally satisfying to watch the millie bugs
just go flying off the plant asyou're spraying, because it really does just
blast them off of there. Ohyeah, So go into you know,
we're getting ready to go into thefall right now. All right, we
started getting some vegetables in all right, So you know we've gotten some peppers.
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Yeah, we've actually gotten some reallynice vegetable plants. Yeah, I
mean we got real nice peppers.Some tomatoes, some squash stuff like that,
just to get for a fall cropof vegetables going. And you know,
I just it's so darn hot.I still ahead and replaced any of
my stuff, like I pulled upeverything. But I mean I hadn't done
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any bed prepper or anything just becauseof how hot it is, you know,
and I just don't like sweating.I got a sweat enough working for
Plax. So but you know,if we if you want to start your
vegetables right now, which it's goodtime to do, I really recommend doing
a transplant, so like essentially justup putting them into a larger container,
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like a one gallon, just sothey can get a good root system,
you know, and then that wouldthey're not as stressed out once we go
into the heat, you know.Right. So that's like the biggest thing
I've it because I've had real toughluck when i'll I'll just go get some
little four packs and go put themout in the sun, you know,
and they'll just kind of wither upand die because it's one hundred degrees outside.
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Yeah, you know, so wekind of got to get them acclimated
for their forever home until it's notyou're saying we should be starting them in
more shade. Yeah, okay,I'm just a little I mean, and
it doesn't have to be a longtime, just like a couple of weeks,
just so that it gets a littlebit bigger and it can withstand the
you know, hellscape that is ourYeah. You want a good root system
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on the plant. Yeah, exactlyso. And the biggest thing is just
consistent watering with all that stuff.And that's the key point with anything right
now, just because it's so hotoutside, staying on top of watering.
Vegetable, any kind of vegetable isa that is a heavy I mean heavy
feeder, heavy drinker, you know. So you want to make sure they're
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happy right now, or at leastas happy as can be, right,
you know. But like I said, we've got a ton of different vegetables
that we started pulling in. Imean, I've got We've got ocra squash.
I think I might have all cucumbers. Could be wrong, though,
So what kind of tomato are yourecommending people plant right now? The celebrity
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is great, you know, we'vegot some other varieties. Uh, that's
a it's a weird tomato. Butthe chocolate sprinkles for some reason. I
like that one, you know,and you're like, oh, it's like
this brownish purple color. They domake a strange color. Yeah, and
it's like that is not a ripetomato though, so but no, that
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probably the celebrity celebrity. Yeah,Unfortunately, my household doesn't like tomatoes except
ketchup. I can't lie. Idon't eat them raw. You can't cook
it any kind of way, andI'll eat it raw, thank you.
But no, there was I mean, celebrity has just been an excellent performer.
Yeah, that's a big seller atthe store. Ye. So but
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now that and then I mean,just just make sure we're fertilizing and keeping
stuff watered. That's like the biggestthing with any of those vegetables. Okay,
all right, so moving up,you know, we talked about watering,
you know, and then I thinkwe all have to take a break
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coming up. But what we'll dois we'll touch up on watering a little
bit and just a little bit.But I wanted to go back just for
a second to talk about the tryingwhen we're talking about the vegetables, all
right, the if you wanted tostart seeds all right, I want to
do that you want to do there'sinside until they sprout. I had a
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few people come in. They wantedto just direct sew, and once you
get the hang of direct sewing,it's pretty smooth. But if you're a
fresher gardener, typically recommend starting themin actual cell packs, just like what
we do with the nursery. Sowhen you're starting them at home, should
you have them like up on awindow sill closer to sunlight? Yeah?
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Okay, So like my folks havea big old fancy grow table thing,
you don't have to have that.You just put them up by the window
sill and just kind of rotate therotate the flat. And how should you
be watering that while you have itinside? With a mister a mister attle.
(11:33):
I'll just have a little spray bottle. We don't really want to soak
the ground, but you want tokeep it moist. Okay. So my
name is Zayeth Mercer, joined herewith Braden Bonna Donna. Again, thank
you for pronouncing your last night butcheredevery time. So you know, we
had to take a little break.But I want to talk about watering plants,
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you know, not that we don'ttalk about that enough. Yeah,
right, but you know we've gotyou've got your potted plants, and you've
got your stuff in the landscape,all right. Not all plants get the
same amount of water, all right, But right now it is so dry
(12:16):
and hot. If it is nota cactus, it needs water. Yeah,
it needs water like almost every day, you know. I mean I'm
running I'm running my soaker hoses forlike seventy minutes on several zones because they're
long. But it's just I mean, it's crazy. And then when we
went on vacation, just to playit safe, I was running it for
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ninety because I didn't want to trust. I mean, everything's fine, I
know, it's just like the biggestthing is I was just trying to keep
the beds hydrated. Yeah, youknow, I didn't want I didn't want
my flower beds to go hydrophobic becausethen all of a sudden they don't absorb
the water that we're putting on it, right, you know. And that's
like the biggest thing I've tried toget across to any customer that comes in
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with the water in question, youknow, may have been seen so much.
I mean yesterday I've got an extremelywell versed contractor just I mean showing
me picture after picture of leaf scorch, you know, and it's just like
water water, water, that's allit is. It's water. So but
it looks like we've got a phonecaller out from Lafayette. Okay, how's
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it going today out? Fine?It just hot, very hot. Yeah,
this is my favorite in law Bradenby the way. Oh okay,
I have a question about web rooms. You know, it didn't kill the
tree, and it looks bad,but is it necessary even to treat them?
You're talking about like the tent caterpillarsup in the Yeah, contre.
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I mean usually the infestation isn't sobad that it affects the tree. Now,
that's it. I mean I've seenit where it looks like it looks
like a tents over the entire pecantree, and the pecan tree is like
sixty feet tall, you know.So I mean it's really it's up to
you. I mean it it butused to bug me driving a mow in
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the grass underneath it, underneath thepecan trees and then getting covered in them
because I would hit a limb likea brush brush a limb. Yeah,
but the best way to get ridof them is you you poke a hole
with a stick and you spray permethronin the in each tent. So you
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have to actually get it inside thewebbing yea, which is next to impossible
once it gets real tall. Yeah, and it's not really feasible to like
treat it with a systemic insect aside, you know. So yeah, I'm
gonna say I'm gonna go with Okay, it's up to your discretion if if
it's bad, if it's super severe, I would say treated. Otherwise I'd
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usually just let it go. Yea. Okay, Well, thanks a loud.
I appreciate it. You're welcome.Take care. Hopefully I get to
see her soon. I know exactlywhat tree she's talking about. Well,
maybe we get to see it soon, yep. So but no, uh,
that's a good question. Yeah,yeah, Now those are some tough
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buggers to kill. Yeah, becausethey always see that acts like a wall.
All right, So like we'll carrythe eight. The eight has a
jet nozzle on the house end.That is the only one that will penetrate.
Okay, otherwise you have to makethat hole you get the exactly yeah,
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because it just doesn't have the waterpressure to push through. Okay,
you know, but that's a yeah. They just like to make houses everywhere,
you know. So and then there'sa couple of other insects that do
the same thing, you know.And it's like there's a scale m that'll
do something similar. Really it wrapsthe whole tree. I did not know
that. I know spider mites cando something kind of like that, exactly.
(16:00):
All right, So we're talking aboutwatering, and you know, we
just talked about water, water,water, and so I know, especially
with my plants because I have alot of pot at things, it's almost
twice a day at this point.We water when we leave for work,
and then we water when we gethauled from work after watering plants all day
at work exactly. Now, thereal saving grace I found, So I
(16:26):
have I have some pots in myfront of my front of my patio,
and the saving grace I found isI put that soil, my moist product
that we sell in the each pot. Okay, yeah, And what that
is is that's just a polymer.It's real similar to the stuff in diapers.
So it's just an absorbent, soit expands when water is added.
(16:47):
To it and then it slowly leaksthat water out right, So it helps
reduce watering. And so that's setof I'm seeing people over water with that
in there, you know. Butit just helps that neglectful period where it's
like, hey, I still gotthrough more hours at work and I know
those plants are drooping. Yeah,you know, So it just helps get
(17:10):
it to that point where I canwater it again. Okay, Yeah,
Now that's just that product's been asaving grace for me a bunch of times
over the years. Another thing Iwanted to kind of talk about, as
far as Pottit Plants goes, isfertilizing. What fertilizer do you recommend or
pott So I really like that premiumbedding plant food that we carry. Now,
(17:34):
the amount I will put down perplant varies, like as it gets
hotter. As it gets hotter,I cut whatever I'd put down in half.
And are we having to fertilize moreoften with Pottit plants because water is
like washing it out when you're watering. Yes, So like this stuff,
I like all my flower bed stuff. I'm not gonna I'll put fertilizer in
(17:56):
the spring a little after I've plantedit maybe two weeks after and then I'll
put some down again, you know, somewhere around junish May, all right,
and then I just kind of letit go. I mean, I
can put some more down in anothermonth and a half, but I usually
forget about that time. Yeah.But now that said, this whole the
(18:18):
whole period, I'm also amending itwith fish emulsion fertilizer, just like you
know, I'll do a one weekall right, We're gonna fertilize with this.
So I'll hit everything with fish emulsion, you know, just to give
stuff a little extra boost, right, all right, Because I'm doing a
slow release fertilizer and that's my granule, and then I'm using a fast release
(18:40):
periodically. And when you're spraying fishand washing, can you spray that like
on the plane itself? Are youtrying to get mostly the soil? You
can spray it on the planet itself, all right, but it does absorb
mostly through the soil. Okay,all right, So I'm gonna I want
to soak each plant. And whatabout like if you're using a water soluble
fertilizer or like a miracle growth products, are you using that more often?
(19:03):
If you're that's that's kind of thesame. The miracle grow is more of
the same thing as my fish emulsion, right, Okay, that's just my
amendment, all right. It's likeI got some liquid feeds. I'm going
to use those kind of periodically tojust give stuff a little boost, okay,
And I found it worked. Imean anything that's fast and like as
(19:27):
just fast growth, like your petunias, all right, they just respond really
well to the fish emulsion. SoI kind of favor that over miracle grow.
That fish emulsion really does do somegood stuff or plants stint, but
oh yeah, you know it stinks. But it's like that you're collediums.
Yeah, things like that. Theyseem to respond, like you know,
(19:48):
use a slow release nitrogen and thenyou hit it with a fast release.
It seems to kind of respond realquickly. So I've been real happy with
that. The you know, andyour annual fertilizers in the landscape, I'm
gonna put more obviously than I wouldin a pot, right, you know,
because I don't want to burn anyof my plants. Right. So,
and that's another thing I think it'sworth mentioning, is when you're fertilizing
(20:12):
pot it plants it. You reallydon't want to go too close to the
base of that plant. You wantto go kind of around that, kind
of around the edge of the pot, so you're not burning any of the
roots. Yeah, we want it. We want the fertilizer in the root
zone, but at the edge ofthe root zone, because you want your
fertile you want your roots to expandoutwards, right, all right? And
(20:34):
you know, and I found itit kind of helps if you put your
fertilizer on that outside edge. Ithelps your roots kind of especially a newly
planted plant, They're gonna seek outthat nutritional content, so they're gonna expand
outwards and they're like, oh,I've got all this food out here,
so it's gonna start pushing roots outfurther exactly to the pot. So and
(20:57):
I've just had really good look withthat. All right, Let's see,
we got another phone caller. That'sexciting. Tim. How are you doing
today? Great? Great? Myquestion is I have some African daisies in
my flower bed. Been doing greatall spring up until the last maybe two
(21:18):
weeks. I'm starting to get alot of browning the upper upper leaves and
I've been watering the heck out ofit, and it's kind of stopped blooming,
and uh, it looks like they'restarting to die out. Do those
die out in the in the summer? Not typically unless they are when you're
when you're watering. How how manyhow often are we watering them every day?
(21:42):
Just about now? Yeah, Imight might cut it back a little
bit. Train are they in pots? Are in the ground? They're in
the ground, They're in the flowerbed. I have a hibiscus and some
allocacia giant allocacia that's in the sameflower bed, and the allocacia are not
growing as a vigorously as they were, so I was thinking they needed a
(22:06):
little bit more water to them.But my African daisies are about you know,
two foot tall maybe and about threefoot wide. They really grown.
But now I'm starting to see somebrowning at the top. Usually you'll get
a little at the bottom. Yeah, yeah, we always see a little
on the bottom, right, Butnow I'm starting to get it up top.
And have you just inspect the stemsand everything in the leaves for any
(22:30):
kind of insects, especially like mealybugs. They like them. They like
to get in like tiny crevices something, so you won't necessarily see them,
but they're they're doing damage. Okay, Yes, biscus is doing great.
I mean it is blooming. It'sactually one of the bigger ones I have
because I guess it does get morewater than some of the ones I have
in pots. Yeah, oh yeah, and the high biscus will love the
(22:52):
water. Yeah right. The onesin the pots are just small blooms,
and I guess that's from the heat. Yep, yeah, it's the just
the heat. Occasionally they'll get alittle thrip on them, like a little
insect, but it's probably just theheat. It's kind of it makes the
flower smaller, kind of dwarfs it. It's just also, should I be
(23:14):
watering with a liquid fertilizer just enoughto get them fertilized because I use granules,
but water in it every day.I'm sure the granules don't last as
long as they normally do. AndI water every third day. Yeah you
know, Oh yeah, no,I know. Yeah, you could go
ahead and just hit them with someliquid feed as well, right, do
(23:34):
youither like once a week or onceevery two weeks. I remember Butch telling
me one time that using a liquidfertilizer is like an energy drink or an
energy shot for a plant. Well, it's like a fast acting. Yeah,
you don't water it as much.You water enough just so they can
get a good drink. Yep.Then the next day come back and give
them a good drink of water.Exactly. Yeah, the question I have,
(23:57):
I'm sorry, No, you couldgo ahead as my set zoomas.
I got a plant it's probably fiveyears old, and I've usually had a
good crop us at zoomas off ofit, and I noticed I went out
yesterday and I've been watering it,but I've gotten several now that have just
split, like they've gotten too muchwater. Okay, So it could be
(24:21):
it could be the like I mean, how much when you say you've been
watering in a good bit, Well, you let the sprinkler or the like
a soaker hose run for like well, actually, I just lately I've been
just running the hose for about fiveminutes full at the outer edges of the
drip line, okay, and justsoaking the ground real well about every three
(24:44):
to four days. Okay, becauseit is in the ground and it is
a good stable tree. You know, it's been there a while yeah,
you said for five minutes. Yeah, yeah, I might. I might
put a little bit more water,but I wouldn't think the the water is
not going to be shouldn't be splittingyour satsumas though, because it's not that's
not a lot of water. Okay, there's the lower ones that are on
(25:07):
there that are doing it, butit's like the other ones are getting a
little yellow tip at the end wherethey're starting to ripen a little bit.
But I noticed seas were more yellow, and it was like they filled up
full of water and just split therhine open. Yeah, and that usually
see that when we get like aninflux of water. So like at my
(25:30):
house, my satsuma did it lastyear at one point because all of a
sudden we got rainfall. I swearfor like two weeks straight, right yeah,
and then like a month later theystarted splitting, you know. So
I mean, if you wouldn't mindif you out and about if you just
bring a sample in, I'd loveto take a look at it. Okay,
yeah, we'll do it all right. Well, I appreciate your appreciate
(25:52):
it. My name is Say Mercer, still joined here with Braydon. Good
morning, Yeah, good morning,right, Why don't we tell every thought
of the phone number they can call. Oh yeah, because my wife keeps
texting me to remind me it's gonnabe four nine nine w JPO. That's
four nine nine nine five two six. If you have a call question or
concern, you can call now.You know, we were talking about watering
(26:18):
like our betting plants or shrubs,all that stuff, just keeping it consistent,
you know. And I mentioned itfor a second about the I'm trying
to keep my flower beds hydrated,right, you know, not soggy,
but not powdery and compacted right,all right, because that I mean,
water doesn't permeate through that as wellas you know, all right, you
(26:41):
know, well at the nursery youcan always tell when a betting plant has
gone a little too long, alittle too long, you know, So
it just it gets that compaction right, just separating, starts separating all of
a sudden, water doesn't permeate throughit. Well. But that also so
kind of ties up nutrient content inthe soil when we repeatedly go to wet
(27:06):
to dry, wet to dry,so like with your tomatoes and your peppers,
calcium will get locked up in thesoil, all right. But I
found with like betting plants and shrubsand stuff, it's it's the same deal,
you know. They just don't takeup nutritional content as well, which
(27:27):
opens the door to them to bestressed out, all right, which opens
the door for insects and pests tocome in, right, you know,
because you never really find a realgood insect infestation on a healthy plant.
It's always there's something already wrong withit, you know, like with mealy
(27:47):
bugs. Oh there was a gashon this plant, so mama laid her
eggs in the ash, all right, And it's because it's like got this
safe, protected spot. You know. It's the same with like you'll find
wasp nests and like hollies and stuff. Whenever there's like a little section,
I die back because it's like,oh, all of a sudden, this
is a really good umbrella, right, you know. It so the same
(28:07):
kind of deal, you know,But we're uh. I wanted to just
kind of mention about, you know, the betting plants and stuff that we
have in the nursery still, yeah, because and I know it's really hot
right now, but is there anythingthat we can be playing thing as long
as we're watering enough. Oh youcan. As long as you're water enough,
you can you can plant all year, you know. But we just
(28:30):
have to water enough, that's thething. So I mean, I've got
I've got some pockets at my housethat I got to pull up like I'd
pulled up my angelonia because uh,let's just say, somebody helped water and
uh they snapped, you know,they got damaged, and I I just
rather pull them up and I'll justreplace them with something else, you know.
(28:52):
But we've got gorgeous cuban gold doriantaright now. Yeah, you know,
we've got not add such a goodcontrast color. So anyone that's not
familiar with that, that's a likea shart true screen to yellow bedding plant
kind of perennial like he typically comesback each year. I usually just rip
(29:14):
it up because that's square footage toput other stuff. But you know,
we've got that in stocked. We'vegot still a good selection of Salbia.
You know. I've got plenty oflantanna, really neat varieties where it's like
a I mean there's a there's onered I think it's called a citrus blend
all right, where it's like redto orange is really congent red. Yeah,
(29:36):
you know, it's just like justverry stands out, you know.
And so we've got, i meanplenty of things to choose from, pent
some really nice native milkweed right nowtoo. Now the milkweed selection has been
there was like that one little briefperiod in between the spring going into the
summer, it was like two orthree weeks where we didn't have too much.
But I mean with the gallons ofthe native there's just fat, pulous
(30:00):
and that's a pretty orange. Soit's still a very pretty bedding plant.
And it stands out, that's forsure. And it seems to grow fast
enough to compete with the caterpillars.That's the one. The one issue I
have with milkweed is some of themdon't grow quite as fast fast enough,
so when you have a good cropof caterpillars, they'll just wipe out the
(30:21):
wipe out your milkweed and then moveon. Do you ever find that a
fits go after one milkweed other anotherone, or do they just really just
go out? I think they justreally really like milkweed, you know,
I mean it just overall, Imean, it's just every single one except
maybe the giant. The giant.Yeah, that's true. I haven't spider
(30:41):
mites like the giant, so theygot that cut. You know which,
by the way, if you're notfamiliar with giant milkweed, that is another
really neat. I mean it looksalmost alien, it really does. It
makes a strange but really cool lookinglittle flour It's like a little lavender pink
flower. But it's almost like glossy. Yeah. And then really it's shape
(31:03):
dot Yeah, that's another thing.It's like it's more shaped like a almost
like a cube right now. ButI don't mean interrupt, guys, but
I just had a caller off airwanted to pass along a question to see
if you guys can answer and aids, which is conveniently enough, something that's
not a problem that he said withthis. This is from Daryl and Denham
Springs. He's got a problem withants on his Okra, but he doesn't
(31:26):
have any aphids on his okra,so he's wondering what might be causing that,
well, what he might be ableto do to you know, get
I mean, okra's tasty at all. But yeah, I'm curious what they're
farming on that because it's not usuallywhen you see ants it's because they're getting
what is it the honeydew or doyeah, they what's that ants movie?
(31:51):
I think they talked about it andthen no, but it's a they go
and they they're essentially they're farming theaphids, right, and which is kind
of neat when you think about it. But it's a pest for us,
you know. So there's some antcontrol we can be putting out right now
to kind of clear that up,all right, but I'd be hard pressed.
I want to try to find theactual pest. That's the answers the
(32:14):
ants are going after. They're goingafter something, you know. Now that
said, if it could be afire ant nest just in the bed,
so that would be a different thing. But yeah, I would use the
if it's fire ants, I woulduse that, come and get it.
Because it's just spanosaid, which isinert bacteria. You can use that around
a vegetable plant, yep, okay, so we can use that in that
(32:36):
area. And then there's also anotherproduct it's tomato and vegetable control which that
kills ants as well. We canuse that in the bed, all right,
So I hope that helped you out, Daryl. You know, so
a fits though pain in the butt, they really are. Yeah, I'd
still rather have to deal with afits over milliebugs or spider mites, so
(33:00):
exactly. You know what, Idon't want to deal with mosquitoes, which
they're gonna come once. Once westart getting rainfall. The conditions are almost
perfect. All we're missing is therain. Well, you can say we
need the rainfall. But at myhouse we've still had mosquitoes. They they
(33:22):
light you up at night. It'sjust I mean, that's the word most
annoying thing. And it doesn't botherme, but it tears up my kids.
And then it doesn't bother them.But then they have all these whelps,
right you know, and it lookslike, you know, I just
stuck them in a mosquito pit.Right. So, but now there's a
great product that we carry over atClegs called ion or aon I never know
(33:45):
how to pronounce, but it's themosquito barrier that we used to carry.
It's it's the same stuff, allright, and it lasts about about ninety
days supposedly, right you know.Now that's said, I don't I don't
actually measure when I bought. Idon't match receipts. And it's really easy
to set that up because really allyou have to do is that water to
(34:07):
it. Just just lukewarm water,like warm water, all right, and
shake it a little bit and hangit in a tree, and just make
sure that trees away from you.I do, yeah, I do remember
seeing that on the label. Sayso it has so it's a bait that's
in there so that it tracks themosquito over to it and kills it and
just it essentially disrupts the life cycle. So it's a great product because of
(34:32):
that, because you're not I mean, I used to use the mosquito bits,
right, which do essentially the samething. They wipe up the jack
up the life cycle of the mosquitoes. But you have to throw that I
kind of threw it as chicken spreaddown the yard, right all right,
we have to throw that in yourdamp areas, okay, all right,
(34:53):
which I mean and I do thatlike every few weeks kind of deal.
That's what it seemed like you whereasthis this product, I mean, you
pretty much hang it up and youforget about it, right until you realize,
oh, I got to hang upanother one, yeah, when the
mosquito start coming back. So it'sjust been overall, it's just been very
impressed, especially on the price point. I think it's twenty four ninety nine
(35:15):
maybe, and it's just i mean, pretty affordable for I mean, you
get two containers in it which coverI think a quarter to a half acre
or something like that, all right, and then you just hang them up
and get to hang outside, youknow. And it's better than me having
a call three one one all thetime, right you know. So you
(35:37):
know, we talked about insects,We've talked like we just talked about general
pests that we've got going on rightnow, all right, but I'd like
to talk about some more exciting thingsgoing on. All right, what you
got, Like I'm hoping we're gettingcitrus you know in the next you know,
should be coming up soon next monthmonth is we'll be getting a new
(36:00):
ship shipment a citrus, which werealready we had, you know a lot
of the heavy hitters like we hadyour your hamling, you had your lemons,
we had all that stuff. Buthopefully we should get some sat zooms
coming up, which that'll be exciting, but you know, I won't I'll
cross my fingers until they show up. Yeah, we'll see what they get
there. You know, I've justbeen I've just been wanting to play another
(36:22):
sat zoom at my house. Honestly, what kind do you like to play?
So, you know, we typicallycarry there's a worry the Brown Select,
the mehou. There's that new varietywe started pulling in called the Arctic
Frost, which I'm doing a gotmy dad one of those for Christmas,
I think, And so the thingsit seems to be doing really well,
(36:45):
you know, but I just probablymy favorites, the Brown Select, the
Brown seleg But you're hard pressed toreally tell them apart. It's really it's
it's generally difficult to tell them apart. The biggest thing is their actual fruiting
time. They're a up weeks apart. It's kind of like blueberries, where
it's like one week this variety isblue one, or fruiting I've alway been
(37:07):
there next week. I've always beencurious about the Arctic frosts because I know
that one sends to be a littlemore hardy. Yeah, what is as
far as the fruit, what isthe actual fruit? Like, I'm waiting
to find out you never had oneone yet. The one I have at
(37:27):
my dad's house is setting fruit rightnow. I didn't pick off all of
it, and they take good throughthe winter last year completely fine, gets
the little bronzing like citrus typically I'llget in the winter, just like Guardinia's.
They just get kind of off offgreen. Yeah, you know so.
But oh, it looks like we'vegot another phone caller. All right,
(37:49):
let's see Eve. How are youdoing today? Hey? Hot,
like everybody else, right, butout early as I can and doing what
I can. I had two questions. One is can you guys spell You
said you couldn't pronounce it, butyou didn't spell the name of thesquito.
Yeah, of course. Then youadd the water too, So I'm going
(38:12):
to write that down. And thenI had a citrus okay you're ready,
uh huh, all right, Soit's Ion. It's a I O m
uh huh mosquito barrier and b whoSo that's the brand name is Ion?
Is Ion? Okay? Got it? Okay, that's great. And then
oh and I should ask this,you know I have and I used regularly
(38:35):
for the mosquito. The the stuffthat you put in any water that prevents
them from reproducing. Yep, yeah, you know the I forget the name
of it. Yeah, Mosquito Dunk. Yeah, it's the same brand I
use, the Mosquito bits, samestuff. Okay, So is the ion
kills them as opposed to Mosquito Dunk, which just keeps them from breeding?
(38:59):
Yeah, more or less. Theway the ion works is it kills the
female. I want to say,huh, is the female or the male
mosquito? It kills one of them, which essentially wipes out the That's what
you meant when you said it breaksup the breeding cycles. Okay, well
on most citrus, excuse me.I've got a lemon, and I have
(39:22):
a ruby red grapefruit, and lastyear I got like a hundred grapefruits from
that from the ruby red. Wow. And then and then I have oh
and they taste so good. Andthen I have a fig, I've got
orange, and I have a limethat had gone to the original. I
(39:43):
have to start grafting that one toget anything back, because when we had
the snow, the line came backwith rootstocks. So you know, unless
it gets cross pollinated from the oneof the other trees, you can't eat
the fruit. No, there's much. Yeah, and you don't want that
for anyway? Well, it waspretty good. Actually I tried it,
(40:06):
the one that crossed Ball made.But here's my question. So we've got
all of this heat, and myson is helping me because I'm an old
lady, you know, so hewants to water, Like what is the
amount of time I heard you sayseventy minutes around the root line for a
soaker host? What do you recommendfor the citrus trees? And what should
(40:29):
we expect fruit wise because of thissun? So you said the citrus are
like how old? How old?About a couple years? Say about oh,
ten years? Okay? All right, yeah, I mean I might
once a week, all right,especially if they're that old. And that's
only only because they're that old.You know, I would just put the
(40:50):
hose out if you can get thehose to it, and just put it
on a trickle. But for butfor how long? Would you say?
If if I'm doing a hose tothe trickle out on each one, I'm
gonna run that for like an hour? You know? Okay, I just
wanted the same. Yeah, wewant to deeply soak, all right,
especially when we're not ginny rainfall right, just because not fertilizing either, because
(41:14):
I've been told and I've always believedit might be wrong that you don't fertilize
when you have this kind of heat. Is that ac or not? Not?
Typically? Yeah, the only one, the only reason if I put
any fertilizer on something, I'm gonnago, I'm gonna go half strength,
okay, all right, and usethe liquid fertilizer. Yeah, yeah,
(41:35):
you could use liquid. And thenwhat do you what should we expect fruit
wise or how should our fruit production? Uh? And the flowering and everything
that cycle the affected by this heat? Like what would be something that we
shouldn't freak out over because it's Iwould expect a less less of a crop
if we just continually going go intothe drought. That was a good That
(41:57):
was a good question from Eve.You know, real good question this citrus.
It's just kind of you know,you want to help them out.
Sometimes less care is more, youknow. Now that said, I mean
strictly you always fertilize all year.So and you were telling miss Eve that
with an older tree you wouldn't needto water as often. Is that because
(42:20):
the roots are like further down intothe soil, they can reach more moisture.
They can reach more moisture. Imean, you think about it.
A plant with it is in athree gallon container that's like the root zones
ten inches wide, you know,and they can only absorb that much water
from that area, all right.But a ten year old satsuma that's fifteen
(42:44):
foot wide, all right, that'sgonna be able to reach. That's a
huge surface area, right, youknow, so they can just pull more
water than you know, the littleplant can. All right. So but
now it's good questions, good questionsall day. I wish we had got
more phone calls, but hey,I like talking to you, Braden,
So I worked out, you know. So anyway, yes, so we're
(43:05):
just wrapping everything up. But ifyou wanted to come down to the nursery,
have any calls or questions, I'llbe here there today, probably tomorrow
rather the next day. I won'tbe there tomorrow, but i'll be there
today. Yeah, but we'll beover at the nursery over at Seagan Lane.
If you have any calls or questions, don't hesitate to come see us.
(43:27):
We'll even get out the heat andstay inside. Would be more than
happy to act exactly exactly so well, it was a pleasure doing the radio
show with you today, Break andI guess we'll see you next time.
We'll see you next time, yeah,
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